Survival Scout Tips

With springtime here, it’s time to celebrate the warmer temperatures, blooming flowers, and Easter holidays. However, good things also bring about their fair share of downsides. In this case--sp...

Last week, we covered the devastating reality of life in Venezuela while the country suffered through the largest power outage in the country’s history (see that Survival Scout, Surviving Venezu...

Imagine your power goes out indefinitely for a week. Maybe longer, with no end in sight. Now, imagine that happening to virtually everyone living in your country. While this may have been a mere...

Maybe it’s road closures to your nearby grocery store…  Or food shortages related to a collapsed economy and extreme price inflation like we are seeing in Venezuela…  Whatever the situation, hob...

Wildfires are a very real and dangerous problem--which was really brought to national attention thanks to several in California and the west in 2018. With what is now officially the most deadly ...

There are points throughout our country’s history when true patriotism and the will to survive have helped us prevail as a society. For example, the Valley Forge encampment in Pennsylvania durin...

American journalist Charles Kuralt once said, “It takes an earthquake to remind us that we walk on the crust of an unfinished earth.”  The surface of our planet has 20 plates that are constantly...

Earthquakes can be a deadly occurrence. When they happen, it’s easy to go into shock. But for those that are located near the coast (and we’re talking hundreds of miles off the coast here), the ...

When you think of a bottle of alcohol, enjoying a cocktail with friends at a party or sipping a glass on the rocks after a long day of work may come to mind. Although libations are a nice additi...

The health of our economy is dependent on a variety of factors, one of which is transportation. And what resource do our transport systems primarily depend on?  You guessed it...gasoline. When y...

Any seasoned person that prepares knows that loading up on a supply of nutritious and healthy food is an essential aspect of survival, whether riding out a longer power outage or getting snowed ...

In the span of human history, money as a concept didn’t exist until about 5,000 B.C.  Before that, the practice of bartering had been around for centuries as a means to exchange goods and servi...